"The NFL is good at fleecing taxpayers," says ESPN columnist Gregg Easterbrook, author of The King of Sports: Football's Impact on America. "It's about a billion dollars a year I've calculated in public subsidies to NFL owners and this is a group that consists almost entirely of billionaires and yet receiving significant public subsidies every year."
The NFL raked in over $9 billion in revenues last season and the league is pushing team owners to triple that mark over the next decade
Saturday, 1 February 2014
Why No Smart City Would Want the NFL
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